Banned Book Week

Banned/Challenged Books of 2009-2010 - Title List

• The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Aura by Carlos Fuentes
• Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
• Buster's Sugartime by Marc Tolon Brown
• The Cartoons That Shook the World by Jytte Klausen
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Crack Cocaine Diet by Laura Lippman
• Deadline by Chris Crutcher
• The Dead Man in Indian Creek by Mary Downing Hahn
• Deal With It!: A Whole New Approach To Your Body, Brain, And Life As A Gurl by Esther Drill
• Dragon Ball: The Monkey King by Akira Toriyama
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
• The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• The Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls
• Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
• House of Night Series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
• How to Get Suspended and Influence People by Adam Selzer
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• I Like Guys by David Sedaris
• In the Middle of the Night:The Shockin True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood by Brian McDonald
• The Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein and Felice Picano
• The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
• Jubilee by Margaret Walker
• Kurt Cobain by Michael Martin
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier by Alan Moore
• The Lesbian Kama Sutra by Kat Harding
• Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• Mastering Multiple Position Sex by Eric Marlowe Garrison
• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary by Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
• Only in Your Dreams: A Gossip Girl Novel by Cecily Von Ziegesar
• Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems by Harper Lee
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
• Sex For Busy People: The Art Of The Quickie For Lovers On The Go by Emily Dubberley
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age by Ariel Schrag, ed.
• Survivor Type by Stephen King
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
• Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
• TTYL by Lauren Myracle
• TTYL Series by Lauren Myracle
• Twilight Series by Stephenie H. Meyer
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman
• Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead

Material for this page was obtained from the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom and 2009 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle.

• On these pages, a BANNED book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.
• A CHALLENGED book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.